Bachelor, the author explores physical violence offenses against children. Given that physical violence is a common crime in Latvian, as well as the conditions that this type of crime often becomes children, it is necessary to find the societal existence of physical violence reduction and prevention. Achieve the aim of the work is the following tasks: 1) Explore the nature of physical violence; 2) Find out the physical violence forms of crime; 3) Explore the Criminal Code provided penalties for crimes of physical violence and to identify gaps in laws and regulations; 4) To analyze the judicial practice of physical violence offenses. Keywords: physical violence, crime statistics, crime reduction, fine.